Tag: Oscar

  • The Ten Rules of Techno

    The Ten Rules of Techno

    “You’ve invented educational techno” goes the first comment on this video, and pretty much sums it up, Oscar from Underdog goes through the rules in under 5 minutes with a banging acid track. I wish all music lessons were this much fun! Video makes me think oddly of Adventures in Success by Will Powers…and the…

  • The Count Sings Gogol Bordello

    The Count Sings Gogol Bordello

    An amazingly accurate edit of The Count from Sesame Street singing ‘Start Wearing Purple’ from Gogol Bordello. Works perfectly, and I know as someone who has created a few of these how much work goes into it! And Happy 50th Sesame Street – and RIP Caroll Spinney who was the puppeteer and voice for Big…

  • Never Forget: How to Survive A Plague

    Never Forget: How to Survive A Plague

    In the Oscars there’s a interesting nomination hidden away – the AIDS documentary ‘How to Survive A Plague’ by David France. Covering the period where governments worldwide were dismissing it as a ‘gay’ problem and not really bothered about what happens to them (very wrong on both counts; like other epidemics these things don’t self…

  • Tango Piano On and On Common People…

    Tango Piano On and On Common People…

    I love following threads, usually Wikipedia but sometimes YouTube, and quite often connections that only exist in my brain. Take this Oscar winning animation, one of my favourites ever from Zbigniew Rybczy?ski which: “Thirty-six characters from different stages of life – representations of different times – interact in one room, moving in loops, observed by…

  • the BLEEP of the Count

    the BLEEP of the Count

    I love the Count, was my favourite Sesame St character, closely followed by my childhood sartorial guide Oscar. And to add rudeness to my favourite Count tune (it’s got Polka in it, and DJNoNo made a drum and bass version of it once) and as they say, it’s made of WIN! Or should that be…

  • Bhangra Bootay

    Bhangra Bootay

    As you might have guessed I tend to avoid hype and spam, I prefer to discover the new on my own rather than follow the crowd – the John Peel approach of avoiding what the industry or received opinion says and making up your own mind. Sadly that means that sometimes you miss stuff, as…

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